Current Pakistan External Affairs Minister Salman

Pakistan Television (PTV) on Friday sacked its suspended director of current affairs, Agha Masood Shorish, following allegations of sexual harassment and misuse of authority by multiple staffers at the state-run broadcaster...

The Information Ministry issued a notification for his termination after participants of a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi decided to remove officers who were bringing a bad name to...

HYDERABAD: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Information Maula Bux Chandio has urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to immediately appoint a foreign minister in view of the situation where Pakistan is facing aggression by its neighbouring country and has also to meet certain other external challenges...

“Three and a half years have passed since the [federal] government has taken the reigns of the country but it has failed so far to put a...

KARACHI: Sindh Minis­ter for Finance Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Thursday the government had already released Rs23 billion for ongoing projects by the second week of July during current financial year...

It would release 25 per cent funds this month for the new projects for which Rs35 billion had been allocated, said the minister while talking to journalists after the chief minister shared deliberations at the provincial cabinet...

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank says that the economic growth in Pakistan is constrained by the country’s external demand position which makes 6 to 7 per cent GDP growth per annum unsustainable...

The ‘unsustainable’ curseCiting reasons for un-sustainability, ADB report says Pakistan’s export per capita is low and the country continues to compete with exports from poorer countries...

ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday feared that internal and external forces were out to sabotage the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) but termed the project a major development in the region and important for the economic growth...

The seminar titled “China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Economic, Political and Security Perspectives” organised by Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) at a local hotel...

Minister for Defence, Water and Power Khawaja Asif on Tuesday said Pakistan would not accept any external pressure on the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) reached with India in 1960 for distribution of water between the two countries...

The seminar titled “Hydro Politics around Pakistan: Reassessing the Efficacy of IWT”, was organised by the Institute of Strategic Studies, Research and Analysis (ISSRA) in Islamabad at the National Defence...

Pakistan's central bank has updated guidance on sharia governance for Islamic finance institutions, expanding the scope of external audits to help mitigate conflicts of interest and increase transparency...

Religious scholars who members of an Islamic bank's sharia board are now barred from serving in any external audit firm, the State Bank of Pakistan said in a circular that complements original guidance from 2015...

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has said that Pakistan’s ability to withstand external shocks has diminished and risks will remain predominantly on the downside with declining reserves and elevated debt ratios...

Rising global interest rates and tighter liquidity situation will pose challenges to Pakistan given the high gross external financing requirements...

WASHINGTON: There’s no pressure within Pakistan to revoke the country’s blasphemy laws, although foreign governments and media often demand such a change, says Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Muhammad Yousaf...

Addressing members of the Pakistani-American Press Association at a dinner on Sunday, he also said those who wanted to make Pakistan a secular state were too weak to bring any real pressure...

ISLAMABAD: Newly appointed federal Minister for Science and Technology Rana Tanveer Hussain, following corruption allegations levelled by the minister of state of the same ministry, has taken notice of alleged corruption in the National Testing Service (NTS)...

“Federal Minister for Science and Technology having assumed the charge of his portfolio has taken serious notice of the alleged corruption allegations levelled against the NTS...

ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to rein in the bureaucracy of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Mohammad Yousuf followed members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs in a protest walkout against his own ministry’s officials...

Committee members expressed support for Mr Yousuf’s stance against the bureaucracy, while the minister supported the MNAs and joined their walkout...